Help keep me on track

[Charon]

http://ioplist.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=8

[Chemsoul]

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Thank you Charon! Much appreciated. The pre-50 content is pretty sparse and a lot of it dated. I get that you need to gatekeeper safely and I will find my way to 50. Thanks again.

[I-carus8045]

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Thank you Charon! Much appreciated. The pre-50 content is pretty sparse and a lot of it dated. I get that you need to gatekeeper safely and I will find my way to 50. Thanks again.

There is some good options amongst the "$uggest-a" sections, Our gatekeeper does an excellent job at guarding the secrets of the underworld. patience is a virtue, impatience will lead you to wander the banks of the river styx for eternity. 

keep it up, you will get the chance to give the ferryman your token eventually

[pickles77]

Pharma-fam,

I am trying to keep up with my posts to reach 50. I've read the rules and plan to adhere to them faithfully. I'm wondering if I could get some suggestions as to what and where on the site would be most appropriate for a newbie to post? I'm thinking of reading thru threads and offering advice or opinions where I might be helpful. Can anyone suggest other forums or topics that might be appropriate for me to be making posts in? Thanks all.

I am totally on the same page. I am shy by nature and it's tought feeling ackward.

[Chantilly]

As a former newbie, and long-time absentee returning to IOPlist, I get how you're feeling. All the rules and losing-precious-posts really muzzles what you want to say (THEY'RE IMPORTANT THOUGH). The rules near-exclusively relate to vendor (and buyer) privacy. No details regarding packaging, contents, identity, etc, though posting about customer experience and delivery time would be helpful to other members. Respecting the rules means respecting another's privacy.

Also, before recently I hadn't much experience with forums. I was nervous about what I wanted to post, and i kept second-guessing the right thing to say.

But things become natural quickly. It took me awhile to get over fear-of-rules and to post normally, but the community here is kind and welcoming. Don't worry too much about the rules; losing posts is only to deter members from revealing incriminating information. As long as you're nice to folks around here you've nothing to worry about. And the more vendors you use the more you'll have to post about!

[Danny]

http://ioplist.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=6

but, it would seem our music thread and a few others require fifty posts.  u can make five a day till ur first fifty.  then about ten a day.   goals are at play here.

but, i know another forum uses reputation points.  we do not per se.  we have a staff and top member conference room.  we make decisions based on my staff here.  

u can achieve access to the fifty post area without one person liking ur posts.  technically.  but as we are deliberately small, and want to stay as family, the people of senior status and above all contribute to many a decision made on here.

the real dirt:  if i were you, i would worry about the opinion of that witch charon, that tough gentleman Ice Wizard and our brilliant admin of steel.  They have the power to ban.

You will note that as i do this as ministry before God and man, u will get many a chance.

Don't fret.  Just talk.  The way u would in an aunt's parlour.  With her church group around.  knitting.

oh, i kid.  soon u can put up music.  but, for now, so we don't allow people we don't know into the secured areas, u gotta post in the areas u can  currently see.

attitude, politeness, truth, kindness:  here, these all count to make us want to keep u as a family member.

just be you.  u may get edited a bit but u won't be banished for being you.  just dont fight.  i got a houseful of chronicall ill and chronically anxious in here.  many waiitng on meds.

so don't start flame wars.  but it will be a piece of cake for u i am sure.

just be u.  the parts that r allowed to be safely shared in open forum.  u get more freedom to speak after fifty posts.

whew.

Charons a witch bit a good witch...she and her warlocks rule this dominion tough but fairly.  They have to or there would be no here.